Family of veteran with PTSD files suit against police

Family of man who died in police custody files suit

By TONY RIZZO

The Kansas City Star

The family of a man who died after he was restrained by Kansas City police in 2009 has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the department. The suit filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City alleges that officers used “excessive and unreasonable force” when they encountered Gilbert Dixon after he was found without clothes and screaming in the street on Oct. 8, 2009. Dixon, 60, of Lexington, Mo., was experiencing a flashback related to post-traumatic stress disorder from his military service, the suit contends. After handcuffing Dixon and applying leg shackles while he was facedown on the ground, officers sat Dixon up but allowed his head to slump forward with his chin on his chest, according to the suit.
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